MECHANICAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT Normal stock maintained (tons) ... ......... 183 Map No. 4 Western Maryland Railway, Port Covington Coal Pier. North side of Ferry Bar Channel, Patapsco River, south of McComas Street and Key Highway, Port Covington. City of Baltimore. Western Maryland Railway Co., Hillen Station, Hillen and High Streets, Baltimore, Md. 887, each side. 35 Oceangoing vessels and barges. All grades of coal. None. One fixed electric car dumper on southwest side served by inclined track with cable car pusher. One fixed tower bin on northeast side served by belt conveyor from car dumper on southwest side. Total rate for both loaders is 3,500 tons per hour. Each loading tower has telescopic gravity chute with attached mechanical trimmer. Low-level chutes and conveyor belts for loading small vessels. Thawing units for all tracks leading to car dumper. Electric winches on pier for shifting barges. 237 Map No. 1 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Curtis Bay Coal Pier. Near Stonehouse Cove, north side of Curtis Bay, about 3,000 feet south of Patapsco Avenue. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., B & 0. R. R. Building, Baltimore, Md. 700, each side. 35 Oceangoing vessels and barges. Bituminous coal; all solid fuels. None. Four electrically-operated traveling coal loading towers; each is equipped with telescopic loading chute and mechanical trimmer, two serving one side and two the other side of pier. Each tower has one horizontal retractable belt conveyor serving either side of pier and supplied by one of four 60-inch belt conveyors extending along pier from storage bins at shore end; rated capacity 2,000 to 2,500 tons per hour each. Two steam car dumpers on shore, each handling an average of 1,500 tons per hour. Thawing units for tracks leading to car dumpers. Plant fire department, hydrants, hoses, and watchmen. Steam power plant with pumps, A. D. T. service, and watchmen. REMARKS STORAGE WAREHOUSES Public warehousing facilities at the port of Baltimore are adequate to serve the dry, cold, and bonded storage demands for the variety of commodities received or shipped by water carriers. Nearly all of the buildings are situated in proximity to waterside terminals and are of either steel or timber frame, reinforced concrete, or brick mill-type construction. Two-thirds of the build ings are of more than one story in height; several are 6 and 8 stories and the tallest is 11 stories. Some of the multistoried structures are not entirely devoted to public storage, but are leased or parceled out for numerous other commercial and industrial uses. The rail carriers operating water terminals have been prominent, most generally, in long and short term storage activities at the port, very often utilizing the individual transit sheds for storage when the need arose. Presently most of the transit sheds are in greater demand to perform their intended function of assembling and distributing waterborne cargo. In Baltimore harbor, there are thirty-two sites at which there are warehouse buildings operated by 14 individual companies, and most of these sites adjoin waterfront terminals. Dry storage space available for cargo in the warehouses amounts to 3,241,669 square feet. For perishable goods, four cold storage units, plus one combination dry and cold storage building, provide more than 4 million cubic feet of space in cooler and freezer rooms. Of this total area, part has been developed for quick-freeze processing. Humidity control and ammonia direct expansion systems, brine cooler systems, and freon systems are indicative of the ranges of temperatures and the varieties of commodities which can be handled. Practically all of the facilities have truck platforms or loading doors, and only three of the total are without rail access. Adequate and diversified handling equipment is maintained by the operators, and some offer such special services as packing and crating,bagging, forwarding,pool car distribution, car loading, fumigation, weighing, stamping, marking, and tagging. A few of the companies also offer adjacent open storage areas and tankage for commodities in bulk. The following is a summary of the storage facilities which are fully described under individual reference numbers in the table of Storage Warehouses, beginning on page 172. S.W. Ref. 1,2,3,84 5 and 6 SUMMARY OF DRY STORAGE WAREHOUSES AT BALTIMORE, MD. Operator and Address Canton Company of Baltimore, 300 Water Street. .... B. E. Lesher, 6923 Chambers Road.. 7,8,13,&15 Rukert Terminals Corp., 1409-17 Thames Street.... 9 and 25 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., Camden Station.. 10,11,12 Belt's Wharf Warehouses, Inc., 936 Fell Street..... Storage area (Sq. Ft.) 1,037,906 21,748 296,608 654,353 125,276 14,19,20, 22,&23 16 Terminal Warehouse Co., Davis and Pleasant Streets.... 518,724 100,000 21,30,&31 Baltimore Fidelity Warehouse Co., Hillen and High Sts. Phillips Brothers Warehouse, 829 S. Howard Street..... Transit Storage Corp., 3141 Washington Boulevard..... SUMMARY OF COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSES AT BALTIMORE, MD. 166,640 18,000 76,414 220,000 S.W. Ref. Nos. Operator and Address Storage area (Cu. Ft.) 17 and 18 Merchants Terminal Corp., Monument and Forrest Sts.... 3,133,756 The Baltimore Cold Storage Co., 17 E. Pratt Street.... 26 and 27 Consolidated Cold Storage Co., 416 S. Eutaw Street.... STORAGE WAREHOUSES WAREHOUSE REFERENCE NO ON MAP OPERATOR AND ADDRESS EXACT LOCATION Canton Company of Baltimore, 300 Water Canton Company of Baltimore, 300 Water Canton Company of Baltimore, 300 Colgate Warehouses Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Canton Railroad Warehouse No. 7. LOCAL NAME OR DESIGNATION Ponca Street and Leland Avenue. Dry. KIND OF STORAGE COMMODITIES USUALLY STORED General Merchandise. On Canton Railroad Pier No. 7, Newgate Avenue west of foot of Haven Street. Dry. Sugar and general merchandise. Water Street, Baltimore 2, Md. Canton Railroad Warehouse No. 5. On Canton Railroad Pier No. 5, Newgate Averme west of foot of Haven Street. Dry. Sugar and general merchandise. RAILWAY CAR PLATFORM LOADING DOORS RAILWAY CONNECTIONS FIRE PROTECTION IN WAREHOUSE 2,900 feet to P.W.D. Ref. No. 23. On P.. D. Ref. No. 25. On P.W.D. Ref. No. 26, inner end. 20 feet on north side. None. 1,040- by 1-foot at warehouses Nos. 104 feet on west side. and 2; 1,300 by 11-foot at Nos. 3 and (See Remarks). Warehouses Nos. 1 and 2, forty each; Warehouses Nos. 3 and 4, fifty each; all warehouse doors, 7 by 8-foot. Canton Railroad; two platform-level tracks on north side of warehouse No. 1 and south side of warehouse No. 4; three platform-level tracks serve warehouses Nos. 2 and 3; total length 6,400 feet. Automatic sprinkler system, water barrels, and watchmen. West side: thirty-nine, 6-to 11- by 7- to 8-foot; east side: nine, 6 by 7 to 8-foot; north side: two. Canton Railroad; one platform-level track on west side and two surface tracks on east, side. 15 feet on north end. 396 feet on east side. East side: sixteen; west side: ten; north side: one, all doors 9- by 12foot. Canton Railroad; one platform-level track on east side and two surface tracks on west side. |